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[♪ intriguing music playing]

[overlapping radio chatter]

[Trever Yeakley] Why are my neighbors getting mad at me?

It's like, well, because I started a fuckin' farm

in pretty much suburbia.

Yeah, they have a reason to be annoyed

but I have all the reasons of why they can shove it.

[Darrell Blasius] Everywhere I go, people say,

"Hey Darrell, how you like living on the farm?"

I said, I don't.

It's nothing but trash.

-[chickens clucking] -[pigs snorting]

[wind whooshing]

Hi, I'm Jean Galliano.

I'm just a little old lady that feeds cats.

I've been having an ongoing dispute

with my neighbor Marice.

Every day, I see cats.

I ain't never seen so many cats in my life.

They eatin' right there and they chillin' right here.

It's just all cat poop under me.

I'm not breaking any rules.

I'm allowed to feed the cats.

He doesn't understand cats.

He's still bringing more stuff in every day.

-[wood clattering] -[goat bleating]

I'm not gonna lay down and take this,

whether you like it or not.

[♪ "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys playing on speakers]

♪ There's a place called Kokomo ♪

♪ That's where... ♪

[water bubbling]

And there we are with the Kokomo Tribune.

Right on the front page.

"What started out to be six chickens and three turkeys

is now a whole farm next door."

[Tyler Juranovich] I wrote that first article,

mainly because Darrell had come to multiple

Howard County commissioner meetings.

Darrell Blasius.

Darrell Blasius. Darrell Blasius.

He said, "I can do anything on this property,"

and I don't know how many more animals he keeps adding...

Yeah, we're gonna get everybody's attention

with something like this.

[Trever] Currently, I'm trying to settle a dispute

that my neighbors Bruce and Darrell have with me.

We've just been neighbors. We've just been people

who live next to each other and not had any problems

until they decided to have problems with me

about my lifestyle.

Every morning when I come out to get my newspaper,

it's like I got to put my hand over my nose,

and reach down to get the newspaper.

The smell is overpowering.

He came over, he said, "Do you have a problem?" I said,

"Yes, I've got a problem.

I don't like living on a farm."

I wouldn't call it a farm.

It's not some big, huge thing.

I would call this my homestead.

I feel like the things that I'm doing on my property

will be able to provide for me and my family.

We've already faced a pandemic.

You never know what's to come.

I entered my third trimester yesterday.

Twenty-eight weeks, that's when you have to get the test.

I'm excited to become a mom,

but I'm afraid to get 'em out.

[chuckles] That's the scary part.

How did they find out if you were pregnant or not in your time?

They'd shoot your urine into a rabbit,

and if it died, then you were pregnant.

[Trever] This is my grandmother,

the person that I care about most in this world.

-[fence thumping] -Hey, you.

She always has had a very nice place.

I think he's gone through her money.

He's always used her to get what he wanted.

She's not the same person anymore.

I had people calling me wondering, you know,

if I'd moved,

mentally, was I still okay?

They don't understand.

I believe, in their eyes,

he's a dumb, young man that doesn't know what he's doing,

and taking advantage of me, which he is not.

I'm trying to go the easiest route possible

and file for a special exemption.

If anybody says anything in the future, like,

"Nope. Look, I have a special exemption.

-I'm allowed to do this." -[pig snorting]

[Darrell] He's going in for a hearing

to try to get it rezoned.

If Trever wins this rezoning,

I don't know what the next step is.

All I know is we are gonna fight to get rid of this farm.

They're either going to accept it,

-or move. -[Judy and goat bleating]

It's that simple.

-[Alana Johnson] Are you ready? -[overlapping shouting]

[Amala Johnson] So, when we-- when we purchased this house--

Mommy! Mommy! Mommy!

-[Amala] Alana! -[scooter whirring]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[Marice Johnson] This is the first property we ever bought.

[Amala] As the weather changed,

we got to see the multitude of cats.

[Marice] I didn't know that Jean was housing them.

She got shelter for 'em in the front and back.

Right here, inside this tent,

this is a cat hotel.

I told Marice when he was first looking at this house,

that-- that there was these cats here.

And you could see the shelters. They were here.

It was plain here on the lawn. You couldn't miss it.

I said, "Ma'am, we just moved here,

got a newborn, and everything."

I just don't want the cats on my property at all.

[Jean] I'm known as a cat lady on this block.

-People know me around here. -[mewling]

[Mathew Archibald] Jean and the cats

been here for a while.

Since probably I was about eight years old.

She's the neighborhood cat lady.

That's where she feeds them at.

Yeah, I can smell the cat shit now.

[Amala] The smells is atrocious.

[Marice] The poop is another level.

It's worse once I cut the grass.

Open up the door and woosh.

Mommy! Mommy! Poop and crap.

-Really? -[Marice] Whoa.

-Alana. -Poop!

[Marice] Okay.

One day, he was out there cutting his lawn

and he started to go berserk and he picked up the cat house,

and he threw it across the street.

He was banging this like this.

[thudding]

And it's really destroyed.

There's no recovering that.

That was Butters' house.

Fifteen years, I fed her.

It's been very sad for Butters.

And I don't really know

how I'm gonna get her through winter this year.

What he destroyed was worth approximately about $1,000.

[Marice] I was just trying to get the cats out of my yard.

Them boards are sturdy.

Well, she filed a-- a lawsuit against me.

I tried to file criminal charges,

but they wouldn't let me do that.

So, I ended up doing the civil suit.

And that's-- that's where we are now.

We're in the middle of the civil suit.

This is what she said the board and tarps was.

This is what she's suing me for, $900.

All it is is a piece of board.

-[cats meowing] -Look, this all it is.

This house means everything to me and my family.

My daughter's four going on five.

She ain't been able to play the yard yet.

She's never been able to enjoy her front yard.

Shouldn't be living like that.

[Jean] Right now, there's nine cats.

He's freaking out about nine cats.

If I win the settlement?

There would be 500 cats out there.

-[meowing] -[bleating]

-[bleating] -[chickens clucking]

[birds chirping]

[Darrell] We love our home.

We love it. It's--

It's everything we've always wanted.

Our property and what we've worked for

is better than what most our families have.

-It's our retirement house. -This is our retirement.

You want to enjoy it

and I feel like I can't do that anymore.

-Sorry to... -[producer] Just do your thing.

-Huh? -[producer] Just do your thing.

[♪ quirky music playing]

My Cologne? I wear Obsession for Men by Calvin Klein.

It's just a soft scent, not too heavy.

It just has a nice little fragrance to it.

[♪ quirky music continues]

-Is this gin? -Yeah, and Sprite.

[sniffing]

No, that's not. That's scotch.

[server] You wanted gin and Sprite?

-Yeah. -No. Gin and Sprite.

-Okay, I-- -And that's a scotch.

-[Bruce Blasius] Yeah. -[server] Okay.

[Darrell] I could smell it right away.

And yellow? We know that that's--

[laughing]

Our neighbor-- the grandson, decided he wanted a farm.

Right. Next door. To us.

There is! Five pigs... Six pigs...

Five goats... Five sheep...

Six to eight chickens. Fifteen chickens.

Ten to 15 chickens. Twenty chickens.

Three turkeys. At least five turkeys.

Ducks... Bunnies...

Rabbits. Along with the chickens,

the turkeys, and the runny rabbits, the ducks, and the...

[Trever] How we doing?

I got a order of feed to pick up.

-What's up old man? -How's everything going, dude?

I haven't seen you in forever, man.

-I know. -I know.

-It's been a long time. -What have you been up to?

-Uh, just living, man. -Yeah?

I moved out for a while, but I still live with Grandma.

This is where I lived and grew up

pretty much my whole life.

So, I didn't grow up on a farm.

Like, I changed it into one

because I wanted to create something for my family.

I'm here now, like, that past life that was here

is now up here.

Like, this is more fulfilling in life

than, you know, pleasures of the body.

-After high school, -[♪ orchestral music playing]

I went to work and got a job

and stayed living in the home for a while.

I felt kinda stagnant in my life, just living at home.

Met a new girl and started to pursue this new relationship.

We were together for three or four years.

-And... -[♪ music stops abruptly]

And... she did OnlyFans and stuff like that.

I pursued that life with her a little bit, and...

-[♪ orchestral music resumes] -The really fun parts of it

was like going on vacation all the time,

big, giant yacht parties in Miami.

Like, I was at this party, like--

And this is just part of the girls that were there.

Topless girls on the top of the yacht,

then like going downstairs and filming scenes.

It's definitely like a perk.

Like, dude, like, we were out last time

we met Jamie Foxx, man.

Like, I think Jack Harlow was at the table next to us.

Like... It's like it was yesterday, man.

It's like, how often do you go on a,

you know, a blind date? You meet the girl

and she's like, "Alright, cool. Let's fuck."

You're like, "Wait, I don't even know you!"

[Autumn clearing throat]

[♪ music stops]

Hi, hon.

Tired?

[Autumn speaking]

Oh.

-Alright, I'm ready to wrap up. -[producer] Okay, we'll wrap.

[Marice] Another thing that's a disturbance,

when you can hear a noise right through the walls,

or if she start playing her music loud,

and I can hear it through there.

[♪ muffled mystical music playing]

[♪ music playing louder]

[Jean] This is the shroud of Jesus Christ.

It's a hologram.

Jesus left us proof.

You have to use 3D glasses.

The image of the man comes out of the shroud.

-Can you see it? -[video playing on TV]

Wow.

-[cat yowls] -Louis! Stop it!

-[Louis meows, growls] -You're being bad.

People have a near-death or an out-of-body experience,

it brings people closer to their spirituality.

That's what happened to me. I became closer to Christ.

I had pneumonia.

And I was in a hospital for,

I don't know, a week or so.

I was sure that I was dead.

And then, suddenly, I popped my eyes open.

In the room, there was this angelic figure.

And it pulled me up out of my body.

I would visit ancient civilizations.

And they threw me back, and I hit my body again.

And I got up and he said, "We're not finished."

It changed me.

Once you figure out that

the spiritual world is real,

you wanna shout it from the rooftops.

You wanna tell everybody. That's what this is about,

I really wanna tell everybody.

This is my-- my office

where all the magic happens,

where I write my screenplays.

I won all these awards

for this Desposyni script.

And I'm so proud of them that I hung them all over.

I want to now begin to shift my focus from this project

over to this project, The Missing 18 Years.

Because there's a big chunk of the life of Christ

that's missing.

I would love Mel Gibson

to be the director on this

because I think he's done a fabulous job

with the stories of Jesus.

And I don't care about his reputation in Hollywood.

If I get out to Hollywood, they're gonna hate me, too.

This is who we're trying to get "The 18 Missing Years" to him.

'Cause Paul Ruffman is not only a film producer,

but, you know, he's associated with Mel Gibson.

We're really hoping to get this project in front of him.

I have a manager, Fredric Schwartz,

and he also is the owner of the Quantum Healing center.

You know, I really wanted to help her to move her project

from script to screen.

And we've been kind of navigating

and charting those waters ever since.

You know, I want to be as supportive of-- as possible

with Fredric. He's been supporting me

through all my film endeavors.

And I'm gonna volunteer some time

to see clients in the system.

Welcome to the Quantum Healing Room

featuring the Energy Enhancement System.

This system creates a hyper-healthy energy field

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From a technical perspective,

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The Fibonacci sequence was actually built

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You name it, the system has helped it.

Cancer being reversed,

stroke victims getting more mobility.

It helps with autism.

It's $120.

Pricing is per session.

[low buzzing on monitors]

[Jean] Cats are spiritual beings.

Cats see spirits.

They can see into the next world.

I live in a completely different world from Marice.

I don't feel any spirituality from them at all.

[Marice groans]

When I came out this morning, I saw Jean feeding the cats.

You see? They was already lined up, ready.

My child shouldn't have to be worrying about cats,

or if she's in cat piss or poop.

I love you, Daddy!

[Marice] Aw, I love you, too.

You're my baby. That's my baby.

This is my first house, three bedroom.

Alana got her own room. You know how long it took me?

I don't even think I ever had my own room.

I grew up in the projects. You know what a projects is?

My mom had four boys. And all of us went to prison.

I got kicked out of middle school.

I got kicked out of high school.

You know what I mean? Who would think that I'd have a clothes line?

But that's stuff you wouldn't even think.

What's does that say?

"God bless whoever hating on me."

Cat lady, aka Jean, as we're referring to,

is one of the people who may be hating on me.

She don't want to see, I mean, a nice yard.

She don't want to see that. I don't know why.

This whole situation is stressing the hell out of me,

just wondering what he's gonna do next.

He's very unpredictable.

If my husband wasn't dead, he'd go over there

and kick his ass.

I don't have any option.

I have to rely on the, uh, the court system.

[chickens clucking]

[goats bleating]

[overlapping animal sounds]

[Darrell] It's not just you and me.

-[Bruce] Yeah. -And it's not just you and me

and one other neighbor. It's--

There's more people involved than just a couple of us.

[Bruce] Jim's been going to the meetings with us.

It affects his household, too.

[Jim Thompson] I live next door to it

and I have to see it every day.

So, it's just very, very frustrating as neighbors

to see all this going on.

You know, I don't want to do what everybody else does.

Should I have to because

everybody else says that I should?

If it's affecting everybody's property value

you should, just to be a good neighbor.

That's for the zoning board to decide.

Right.

For the board, not the neighbors to decide.

Anybody for it?

Well, I don't think I have to tell you that.

I don't think anybody's for it.

You know, Jim, this isn't what I want.

[Jim] No.

This is what it could be and worse.

[Jim] Oh, yeah.

I don't enjoy this, Jim.

I'm gonna have an elephant over here next.

Where's the lords? Where's the lords of the land?

Look at all this land I have

that I don't even have to grow food on.

Wait 'til you fuckin' see mad.

Then you're gonna think that, "Wow, he's fucking crazy."

Yeah, because when I get mad, I get fucking crazy, dude.

If this was the Wild West...

[scoffs]

What would stop me from going over there and...

[imitating gunshots]

Problem solved, buddy. [chuckles]

[producer] Here, wait, hold on one second. Oh, wow.

I can just take this gun

and I can put it in my pants,

and I don't have to go tell the cops

or anybody else that I have it.

A well-armed society is a polite society.

A lot of people would disagree, but I--

I would disagree to that fact.

With Trever, he gets by with doing anything he wants,

whenever he wants. And I just don't--

don't know what to expect out of him.

I'm going to this self-defense class.

If it does get down to something violent,

then I'm gonna be able to protect myself.

[speaking Japanese]

The first thing I want to do, is we're gonna have you

kicking for the groin.

Hit it harder.

[bag thumping]

Drive into it.

Harder.

Harder.

[Darrell breathing heavily]

[slurping]

[hand smacking]

[hand smacks]

Yeah.

[rapid smacking]

-Yeah. -Yeah, gouging the eyes

and stuff like that this time.

-[fist thuds] -Oh!

[muttering indistinctly]

-Use your hand like a knife. -[fist thudding]

-Just-- -Just take the hand

-and go right for their throat. -Yeah.

-[hand smacking] -Okay.

[hands smacking]

[Eddie Bethea Jr.] That neighbor of yours?

-[Darrell] Mm-hmm? -He does not want to let go.

If you shut him down one time, he'll be shut down forever.

[Jean] Praise the Lord.

Oh, my God. Prayers answered.

Prayers answered. Prayers answered!

I just feel great. I've been praying so long.

I just got this letter from Judy Justice.

And she wants me to appear on the Judge Judy show.

[Marice] The weirdest thing happened last night.

Actually, I got an email from Judge Judy.

[Jean] At first, I thought it was a joke.

We're gonna fly out to LA next week.

She's an animal activist.

She's gonna help me, whatever she does. I'm pretty sure.

I thought that they was all scripted actors or something,

but by them reaching out to me, I'm a real person,

this is a real cat lady.

[Nina Medley] We're gonna go on Judge Judy.

-We're gonna kiss her ass. -We'll be real nice to Judy.

"Yes, Judge Judy." [babbling]

-"Yes, Judge Judy." -[both laughing]

You can't take me anywhere, right?

Well, I'm taking you with me.

-[laughing] -I didn't even consider anybody else.

This has been a lot of trauma for you for years.

And I just really hope that she-- that she gets it.

She'll stay stuff like, "You're a liar!"

-We're not gonna sass her. -Okay.

-We're gonna represent... -Okay.

-...for all the cats and the cat ladies. -Oh.

Our hair is gonna be good, our lips are gonna be good.

We're gonna go to LA and kick some ass.

-[laughing] -Alright. Thanks, girlfriend.

You're the one.

[Amala] She's like an older lady. I'm not--

[hairdresser] Is she Black or she white, Amala?

Scruffy. Is she Black or is she white?

That's what I'm saying. So like, I-- I don't know,

I thought she was mixed, but she might be more so, um,

on the Caucasian side.

Pregnant women aren't even supposed to be

around cat urine and feces

because the smell is so strong they can harm the baby, so--

I-- I didn't know that. I wasn't aware of that.

You're ready for Hollywood, baby.

[line ringing]

-[Fredric] [on phone] Hello? -Hi, Fredric.

[Fredric] Hey. Heard from Paul from Masterpiece Theatre.

He's still very interested in the "18 Missing Years" project.

Ruffman, that's beautiful.

So, he actually called?

[Fredric] Uh, well, he emailed.

Okay. Well, that's good. Email's good.

I'm going out to LA. Is-- Is it possible

that I could meet with him out there, you think?

You think that's too far to go?

[Fredric] Great. Let's see if we can't schedule a meeting.

Oh!

That would be so unbelievable.

[Fredric] All the stars are starting to align.

Hollywood, here we come, Fredric!

Wow.

[snorting]

[overlapping animal sounds]

[doorbell ringing]

-Hi! -Hi.

You contacted me with concerns about the, uh,

-value of your property. -Right.

So, it's a perceived property value situation.

So, this property here does affect the view.

And if I factor in that view,

it impacts that value by $60,000.

Not to the good.

-[Bruce] Mm-hmm. -Oh, my God.

And if I factor in the perceived privacy invasion,

meaning you can't be in your front yard

without that being a part of it...

[sighs] that factors another 50,000 to that number.

-Wow. -So, in theory,

if we were having a conversation about selling your house today,

I would say your neighbor right now

is affecting your property value by about $102,000.

-[♪ solemn music playing] -Wow.

Let's forget about being neighborly.

-[Bruce] Yeah. -It's worth $102,000 to you

to figure out a solution.

Hey Lindsay, this is Darrell Blasius.

-Hey, Janet. -Hey, this is Darrell.

-Hey, Patty. -Mike?

-[Mike] [on phone] Yeah, Darrell. -Hey, this is Darrell.

Hey, I'm just calling to remind you about the meeting.

I'm trying to get people to come to this meeting

so that he can't continue with this farm.

Our property value is falling.

I put my hand over my nose because the smell is so strong.

Come to the meeting at 5:30.

Did you know they added sheep?!

[Mike] You told me that.

We moved out here to have that peace,

and then that's going on.

[Darrell] There's a big crowd of us

that don't want to see this happen.

He's an adopted grandson, is what we heard.

Can you make it? Can you make it?

-[Mike] I'll see you there. -Okay. Sounds good.

Thanks again. I appreciate it.

[♪ dramatic music playing]

Oh!

[laughing] Oh, shit.

I'm here, in Marina del Rey, California,

to go onto the Judge Judy show.

I have pictures of the cats.

I was gonna send them over to Judy,

how healthy they are and in good shape that they are.

This cat, unfortunately, passed away.

I think there's plenty of evidence.

I don't think he'll win,

'cause I didn't do anything to him.

I would, like, psychically bite him.

I am not a loser!

Well, I'm not planning on losing either.

I'm not planning on losing.

[Amala] So, um, we are currently in LA.

Tomorrow's our big day

to hopefully get some kind of closure to this.

I feel, um, very confident.

You see me come out like this, you know what it is.

[both laughing]

[Jean speaking]

[♪ suspenseful music playing]

[gate guard] Hi. You-- You gotta be off the property.

[producer] I'm-- I'm supposed to be an audience member

-for Judy Justice. -Don't want to have to call the police, man.

[security] The penalty-- Uh, Penal Code 602.

You're trespassing.

[gate guard] You have to get off the property.

[producer] I'm gonna miss the show.

[security] I can make a citizen's arrest,

or you leave. Right now.

[♪ suspenseful music stops]

-We won Judge Judy. -We won.

-Yay! -[chuckles]

The verdict was a win.

We owe Jean fifty cents.

-Yeah. She was like, -[cackles]

"I order you to pay her fifty cents."

-Yes. -"Order her to pay you two thousand."

[awkward silence]

[producer] Yeah, I am curious to what happened.

[hand tapping]

Paul Ruffman gave me a call and said he'd be really interested in, uh,

in meeting while I was out here.

He said, "I'd love to take a walk on the beach with you guys."

There he is.

Go talk to him first, before you put the camera in his face.

Yeah, we're so glad to be here. So excited to meet you.

Wow, this is the place to be.

Being right here. This is beautiful.

We're gonna walk and talk about "Legends of the Lord."

[Paul Ruffman] Oh. Yeah, well, let's talk about your film.

[Jean] I think it has incredible potential.

[Paul] Um... No, absolutely.

Judge Judy ate her for fuckin' lunch.

It was so bad.

It was so fuckin' bad.

I knew it wasn't gonna go well.

She was sympathetic to Marice.

"Oh my God, his daughter can't go outside

because there's cat shit."

Jean would start talking and she'd be like, "No! No!"

And she'd wave her finger around,

and starting yelling at her, "Wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa!

Your cat houses look like crack houses!"

Jean was devastated,

absolutely devastated.

She shoots herself in the foot

when she gets backed into a corner.

And that's what I thought I'd be able to help her with.

It goes through the three epics of Jesus.

The building of the pyramids, the creation of the world.

India, Tibet, Persia, Babylon,

you know, you can't fit it all in one movie.

It could be episodic.

We're talking about nine episodes,

-nine episodes, nine episodes. -Yeah, no, all...

The last episode--

I'll just give you a little hint.

He falls in love.

A little more you wanna hear?

-Uh, no, I don't think right now. -Okay.

Because-- Um, just because...

-It's so exciting. -...there's only so much

I can take in-- i-in my brain.

Good pitch.

[Paul chuckles]

-It is really terrific. -Good.

-You know? -Good.

That was great.

Thanks.

-I'm shutting the light. -[Nina] Oh! Ah!

-Goodnight everybody. -[Nina groaning]

-[Jean] There she goes. -[Nina continues groaning]

You think, um, coming out here was worth it?

[Jean] It was a catalyst to have-- have this meeting.

And, uh, kinda get him to say, "Yeah, let's do it."

He said, "You sold me. Let's do it."

If Idris Elba was Jesus, everything would be good.

Right?

I don't think we're having Black Jesus.

Jesus wasn't-- wasn't white.

Like, if you could think of an actor--

I don't have to think of the actor,

I have a casting director.

-I'm asking you... -I don't-- I don't know.

-...a hypothetical fucking question. -I have no idea.

I'm not having a Black Jesus.

We're gonna have classical Jesus.

Okay.

[insects chirring]

[Darrell] I don't know what's gonna happen tomorrow.

Is he gonna be told he's got to get rid of 'em?

Or, I-I don't know, there's just so many things going on.

I think everything's gonna work out

to where he's gonna have to shut down his little farm.

[Darrell] Do you think I am stirring the pot?

Am I doing something wrong?

-I don't know. -It'll all work out.

Don't worry.

[♪ pensive music playing]

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[goats bleating]

[chickens squawking]

[overlapping animal sounds]

[Judy Sciaraffa] Again, Father,

I thank You for Trever.

I thank You for everything that he is,

and everything that he means to me.

[emotional] I thank You for everything that he's doing.

And, I ask Lord, that You bless him. [sniffles]

Let him know what he should and shouldn't do.

And bless everything that he's trying to do.

And I thank You for his sweet wife

and the baby they're gonna have.

[people chattering]

[Trever] What's wrong, honey?

[Autumn] [crying] I just needed a second.

-[Trever] Yeah. It's alright. -[Autumn sobbing]

[Autumn sniffles]

[Trever] Lord, just be with us today

and help us through this process.

We thank You for everything that You've blessed us with.

And everything that You do and everything You will do...

[♪ dramatic music playing]

[people murmuring]

Hmm. None of them can look me in the eye.

-[Judy] Hmm? -[whispering] Nobody can look me in the eye.

Good evening. We're gonna open up

a Howard County Board of Appeals, uh, meeting.

It's time to order.

Yes, uh, next case is case 6-C-S-24,

petition of Trever C. Yeakley.

My name is Trever Yeakley.

I'm asking for a special exemption

to be able to raise farm animals.

[softly] Go sit down. It's okay. Sit down.

I would say that what I have is a private farm.

It's not a business.

I'm not selling things openly to anybody.

If I lived in town and my limit was

to only be able to have a certain number of chickens,

then that's what I would do.

I don't live in town.

I live outside of town in a rural residential area

where these things are permitted or a special exemption.

[council member] It says, "To raise the farm animals

on your relative's property."

-Is this your-- -This is my grandmother's property,

and I've lived with her most of my life.

But she-- I mean, she is here right alongside with me today.

Yes, I am. I agree with everything he is saying,

and I stand by him.

I have a garden and these animals,

and I'm just trying to work hard and provide for my family.

I'm not trying to step on anybody's toes.

Or, you know, nobody's really come to ask me any questions,

any of the neighbors that have complaints.

You know, have you ever put together a jigsaw puzzle?

It looks pretty messy when you start out,

but it looks like a beautiful picture when it's done.

[council member] Okay, thank you.

Any questions from the audience on this case?

[neighbor] There's probably nobody in this room

that would be more opposed to government interfering

in our lives than me.

But in my opinion,

it's just not the right place for it.

All of us out there have worked together for years,

and years, and years, to maintain this area.

[Jim] There would indeed be a negative effect

from three to 10% of estimated value.

[council member] Anyone else want to tell us your concerns?

He never once said he was gonna start a farm.

All these pigs, and the goats, and the--

and the chickens, the turkeys, the ducks, the--

Don't repeat the same thing that's been said

over and over again.

I'm just talking about responsibility.

He's just not looking out for anyone else.

It's all about him.

That's-- That's it for me. Thank you.

[council member] Okay, thank you.

If the Board decides to turn it down,

then they have to get rid of the animals?

-[council member 1] Yes. -[Greg Sheline] Okay.

You can table it for down the road a little bit.

[council member 2] If you table it, though,

what about the current conditions?

[council member 3] They go on as they are.

[attendees] No!

[Trever] Easy.

[council member 1] Folks, please calm down.

-[council member 2] Time out. -[council member 3] Time out.

You know, we've got-- we've got the animal issue.

We've got, uh, the trashiness of the property issue.

[council member] Is there a motion on this case?

Case 6-C-S-24.

I move that we do not approve 6-C-S-24.

-Turn it down? -[council member 1] Yeah.

[council member 2] Second it.

Mot-- Motion made and seconded to deny case 6-C-S-24.

All in favor, say aye.

[council] Aye.

[council member] Opposed? Thank you.

Thank you all for coming. Mission adjourned.

[attendees murmuring, laughing]

[Darrell] Oh, okay. Okay, good. Oh, thank you.

[indistinct chatter continues]

[Judy] There have been some exaggerations,

and some lies.

Darrell, quit putting everything on Trever,

because it's not fair.

Well, I didn't bring the animals in.

-No. -Who did? He did!

-Your house used to be... -Well?

-...a very nice house. -[Judy] It still is.

-No, it isn't. -[Judy] Yes, it is.

-It looks like-- -[Bruce] Okay.

And I don't want to use those words.

[♪ solemn music playing]

[Marice] We're trying to put a-- a pergola,

keep it to where the cats can't just flow in.

It's gonna be the first time we're gonna come out here,

going on six years, I believe,

because of the cats.

[♪ solemn music continues]

As weird as it may sound, I feel like some blessings

coming out of something that felt like a curse at one time.

[♪ solemn music continues]

[Jean] Marice won, and, uh, this is his solution.

Wood fences can't keep cats out.

Cats climb wood.

It's an exercise in futility.

Judge Judy never said to stop feeding the cats.

She can't order me to do that.

[doorbell ringing]

Alright! We get front page again.

"The Board: Farm animals must go."

But they didn't give a deadline.

Does he have two weeks? Does he have five weeks?

Does he have a month?

Uh, we're just hoping

that that he will start doing this right away.

[Trever] Yeah, I wish the hearing would have gone my way.

I mean, that's not real. That's not--

That's not real life. But, this is not the end.

You could have left me alone to keep living my life.

And you could have just not liked it.

Now you're really not gonna like it.

You guys have any idea what that rack there would be for?

Any idea?

That just appeared yesterday, I think.

I'm still gonna have a fence. I'm still gonna have animals.

[singing] ♪ You gotta fight ♪

♪ For your right ♪

And they're talking about "to party," but... [coughs]

Oh, is that for collecting...?

[birds squawking]

For collecting eggs? What do you mean?

[Trever] Kudos for you to winning the battle.

But, that's not winning the war.

Fifty pheasants?

You ever seen the-- the movie The Mummy?

"Death is only the beginning."

What the...

frick?

[♪ dramatic music playing]